We've just put up five poems from Crush with more to come. Read and comment on them here. A few words from Louise Glück's Foreword to the book for those unfamiliar with Richard Siken's work: We live in a period of great polarities: in art, in public policy, in morality. In poetry, art seems, at [...]

We want poetry to be a big part of this. Louise Glück, the current editor of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, has said that Jay Hopler's book is "filled with tardy recognitions and insights. Always we sense, beneath the surface of even the most raucous poems, impending crisis: the terrifying onset of that life [...]